Comments by "Michael Deierhoi" (@michaeldeierhoi4096) on "First salmon in century reach Oregon's Klamath Basin after dam removal | VOA News" video.

We as consumers are ALL responsible for climate change that is accelerating. The energy needs are continuing to increase and at a faster rate than renewable energy is coming on line. So as we participate in this capitalist economy along with the rest of the world we are adding to the need for increased energy production from oil as well as natural gas and renewables. In other countries coal is still burned as fuel with no sign of slowing down. The world economy is like a runaway train and it is hard to be optimistic how this will slow down enough to prevent catastrophe! The song Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull speaks to this insane dash of toward the edge of a cliff.
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@wbwam7710 Your comment doesn't address the cost. The prohibitive cost of the big nuclear plants is partly why so few are being built now. The Vogtle plant in Georgia is tens of billions over its original cost. The thorium reactors have been given much promise as the next technology to produce power with less risk, but no company has solved a few technical problems yet outstanding. And the thorium reactors still need uranium to initiate the process. And the small modular reactors that have been promised for years are dead in the water as no company is willing to assume the mantle of building the hundreds of reactors necessary to make the small reactors a profitable venture. So aside from the positive talk like yours I see nothing more!!
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